10 Things That Date Friends Terribly

7. Everything Being On VHS

Ross and Rachel's accidental sextape, the documenting of the prom night, that time Joey was in a porno movie, the writers of Friends were no strangers to using America's most popular home recording device to help spin a plot point out.

Everyone remembers desperately wrestling with the instructions to try, somehow, to record a season finale that clashed with someone's wedding. It was a defining memory of the '90s, arguably the tipping point between technology going from being something you used in spite of your own cack-handidness with it, to something that was designed to fit seamlessly into your life.

But the last VHS tapes shipped worldwide in 2008, and they were a virtual dinosaur in a digital age years prior to that. Now Ross and Rachel's sex tape would probably just be a few badly angled mobile phone clips, the documenting of prom night would have been converted to DVD or lost forever, and Joey's porno movie would probably be cropping up in 10 Days Of Our Lives Actors You Didn't Know Did Extra Work In Porn.